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Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: soda72 on October 09, 2005, 08:44:53 PM

Anyone use Sony vegas movie studio or the mpeg plug-ins for sony sound forge?   What video quality settings do you find work best?

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: o0Stream140o on October 09, 2005, 09:17:45 PM

This is made with MPEG-2 settings defaulted.
http://www.ahvirtualcinema.com/xtreme_race.mpg

This one is made with Divx
http://www.ahvirtualcinema.com/xtreme_race.avi

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: soda72 on October 09, 2005, 10:02:45 PM

Thanks Stream...

I don't understand the codecs all that well either...

Whats interesting, is if I play the mpg on my xp machine where I haven't installed the divx codec, the colors look decent on the mpg.  When I play the mpg on my win 2000 machine that had the divx codec installed the colors look all messed up.

I was more interested in the settings when building the mpg file..


(http://www.geocities.com/s0da72/tmpl1.jpg)

(http://www.geocities.com/s0da72/tmpl2.jpg)

The only setting that seem self explanatory is the video quality setting....

low or high ...   why can't it all be that easy..  :)

I have a uncompressed AVI that I would like to covert to a mpeg-2 file..  The compression works pretty good just using defaults but I was curious if better results could be obtained by understanding the addtional params...

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: o0Stream140o on October 09, 2005, 10:06:50 PM

is this an ah vid?  If so did  you record it in fraps?

The settings I had:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/269_1128913853_image6.gif)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/269_1128913877_image3.gif)

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: soda72 on October 09, 2005, 10:10:18 PM

yeah,

Its from an AH film...   I used their Save as AVI option...  slow but it works.. Video quality is pretty good...  I don't know much about Fraps....

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: o0Stream140o on October 09, 2005, 10:13:27 PM

Try to set it to 12 fps, then when you do your render in Sony up it to 24 fps.

Title: MPEG-2 quality settings
Post by: soda72 on October 09, 2005, 11:12:44 PM

Thanks for the info Stream...